The Valley star Janet Caperna lost 20 pounds in almost two weeks a recent attack with acute gastritis.
“It usually causes something like food poisoning and it was just wreaking havoc on my body,” Caperna, 36, said. Daily Mail Friday, January 16, of his recent health scare. “It was like my insides were wrung out and I felt like I had a hot glass moving me.”
Caperna was hospitalized twice after going out on New Year’s Eve. When she couldn’t stop throwing up, Bravolebrity initially thought her symptoms were the result of food poisoning or a hangover. Acute gastritis, according to Mayo Clinicit occurs when the lining of your stomach suddenly becomes inflamed, but it can go away with treatment.
According to Caperna, he felt “no relief” for 12 days.
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“I feel sick, so I can’t start doing my normal life again and not say anything, because if I post on Instagram people will be like, ‘Are you okay?'” she told the channel, referring to her unexpected weight loss. “I don’t want to glamorize looking like that because I look genuinely sick.”
Janet opened up even more about her health scare during Friday’s episode of her and her husband Jason Capernais “This Side of the Hill” podcast.
“I think you guys said it had a little glitch, which is what I’d like it to be. It ended up being a lot more intense than that,” he said, returning to the show for the first time in weeks. “I wanted to share an update because I got so sick I lost a ton of weightand it will be very noticeable.”
Janet continued: “I had a pretty bad health scare in the last couple of weeks which wasn’t really fun.”
Once Janet realized she could barely “hold water” after five days, she visited a local emergency room for treatment.
“I said, ‘I really don’t want to die of dehydration.’ I was afraid that if more days passed, it would become more and more dangerous,” she explained. “I was very thankful (that the nursing team) gave me an IV. I was able to take a couple of sips of water and keep it down.”
Although Janet was subsequently discharged, her symptoms persisted.
“A couple of hours went by and I threw it all out again,” he said, noting that he was back in the hospital within days. “They started looking at my stomach and did some tests.”
Janet further recalled that her pain felt “worse than childbirth.” (Janet and Jason, 42, welcomed son Cameron in December 2023).
“It felt like everything from my lower esophagus to my lower belly was on fire,” she said. “I felt like I was being squeezed from the inside. It felt like labor, but constant. I was in a lot of pain and it wouldn’t go away.”
Janet was eventually diagnosed with acute gastritis and subsequently sent home on prescription drugs.
“This goes on for a period of two weeks, and I’m finally on the other side,” he said. “Now it comes in small waves, but manageable nausea and it’s getting better every day.”